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Giotto

Feb 25, 1276

Lived from 1276 to 1337.
A magnificent early realist painter.
A fly in one of Giotto's works looked so real that an observer tried to brush it off the painting.

francessco petrarch

Feb 23, 1304

was a famous artist and teacher .
made poems for a girl named laura
art and literature

Printing

Feb 25, 1450

Scholars believe that johannes Gutenburg of mainz , Germany, became the 1st Eurpean to use movable type to print books.
Printing helped spread Renaissance ideas.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Feb 25, 1469

A florentine diplomat and historian that lived from 1469 to 1527.
Machiavelli can be considered a humanist because he looked to the ancient romans models. the lack of morality in "The Prince" , however, sets him apart from other humanists of the time.

Printing press

Feb 25, 1475

By 1475 printing press operated in England, France, Germany, Italy , and many other European nations. the books that these printing presses produced helped spread new humanist ideas to a large audience.

Baldissare Castigilone

Feb 25, 1478

An Italian diplomat
Lived from 1478 to1529 .
Wrote the book "The book of the courtier"

Titian

Feb 25, 1488

Lived from 1488 to 1576.
spent most of his life in venice.
he wrote "The assumption of the virgin" its known for its sense of drama and rich colors .
The holy Roman emperor was a patron of Titian.
One of the 1st painters to become wealthy from his work.

The Prince

Feb 25, 1513

Written by Niccolo Machiavelli .
He sought to describe government not in terms of lofty ideals but in the way it actually worked .
He argued that a ruler should be concerned only with power and political success .

The book of the courtier

Feb 25, 1528

probably the most famous book of the renaissance.
The setting for the book is the court at Urbino, an Italian city-state where Castiglione lived for many years .
In his book , he used real people engaged in fictional conversations to explain how gentlemen and women should act in polite society.

flood

Nov 4, 1966

the arno river in northern Italy flooded its banks and sent a torrent of water into the museums, cathedrals, and libriaries of the city in florence . Florence contained the worlds greatest store of renaissance art and literature .